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Shoutout to this reporter who always has a very bad week anytime Matt Gaetz is trending. His mentions are fucked for the next four years.
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this is genuinely the funniest thing ive seen all day
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there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh
Do you want to hear about white-throated sparrows?!
Of course you do, they’re fantastic. They come in two models, one with tan head stripes and one with white head stripes. But the gene that controls stripe color also has a bunch of other effects! It’s a supergene!
To briefly sum up a grueling amount of fieldwork by people who were probably not getting paid nearly enough, basically the tan-stripes are nurturers and the white-stripes are fighters, across both males and females. White-stripes chase away intruders more, tan-stripes bring more food to the nest. Tan-stripe females bring more bugs to their chicks than white-stripes, white-stripe females are more aggressive and sing more.
There is a reason Jordan Peterson picked lobsters, not sparrows, to get all MRA about, because the sparrow ladies are ALL about the tan-striped males. Sexy nurturing tan-stripe males are immediately grabbed up by the more aggressive white-stripe females (who are also dead sexy if you’re a sparrow.) Then the remaining birds pair off, so you get tan and white couples reproducing in virtually all cases—nurturing male with aggressive female, hyper-aggressive male with hyper-nurturing female.*
And this is good!** Because it turns out that they can have a tough time if they don’t mate across stripes—white x white sparrows often come out undersized if they come out at all. There was some cool recent genetic sequencing and one particular chromosome is way funky, inverted, and scrambled in the white-stripes. So now every white-stripe has a funky chromosome and a normal one, and every tan-stripe has two normal ones.***
This is all really unique and means that white-throated sparrows effectively have four sexes, because they now only reproduce with a member of the opposite stripe and sex chromosome, and their offspring may be any one of the four sexes. The stripes have essentially become a second sex chromosome.
The geneticists involved think the funky chromosome probably showed up as a weird import from somebody gettin’ jiggy with another sparrow species. Presumably this created a hypersexy female whose white head stripes brought all the boys to the yard, and very unusually, that bred true.
Is that cool or what?!
*No word on whether there is a resulting sparrow tradwife media genre.
**Leaving aside the impact on the emotional health of the non-sexy sparrows.
**A population solely of tan-stripes can reproduce safely, they’re just not that into each other.
please god i have to see so many tags in my notifications about ABO this ABO that solely due to this post. i am going to blow up
Why would people tag AB0 to this?
Our blood types has fuckall to do with gender, personality, optimal diet, mating patterns or anything else.
Blood types are a insignificant curiosity that we wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the immune response that can happen through tissue donation.
If we weren't such crazy space orcs that move one persons tissue into another, or if we hadn such an agressive immune system that pregnant women and their fetuses are at war, our DNA studies would not yet focus on blood types.
Seriously. Focusing on AB0 is just some kind of modern astrology.
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scientist girls in their labs, witch girls in their cottages. both are oh so hard at work coming up with new types of beams to shoot at each other
they are sending their familiars and their lab assistants to fight each other in the forests and in the parking lots
They go to the bar afterwards
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Holy shit, oh my god! 50 of them??
Me when I'm a sexy gay wizard that suddenly realizes they are being followed by 50 rats
OMG LMAO I WOULD NEVER RUN FROM YOU, 50 RATS, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE BEHIND ME
You know what you are so right... We have a bond, these 50 rats and I....
OH SHIT OH NO
WAIT
I CAN'T FEED THIS MANY RATS
Time for the USA's Cheese Cave quest
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Hagar, Eurasier (12 w/o), Jane & Greenwich Ave., New York, NY • “He just came from England last weekend and he’s bonded to me already. He scarfs food like a lion – two seconds and the bowl is clean.”
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be sure to leave out milk and cookies for brutus tonight
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also fun fact, “georg” is actually just the german equivalent of the name george and is pronounced something like “gay-orgh”, so when i first saw the spiders georg post i just read it as spiders gay-orgh and it took me a ridiculously long time to realise that actually most people probably just pronounce it as spiders george. which is so weird cuz to my mind it’s not “spiders george”, its “spiders georg” (spiders gay-orgh). so anyway genuinely curious, how do u guys all pronounce spiders georg
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“I deserve this” Neumann Marcus?
I have spent too much time on this.
pondering the boob orb, the blorb, if you will
it’s him, blorbo
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“Each dot represents 5,000 hogs.” World Geography. 1948.
lemondemon
untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean
Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall.of swine. We are trapped
2kittensinacup
We’ve lost canada and mexico to the hogs already
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Haha looks like that relationship didn’t work out… didn’t work out et al.
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“Before You Embark On A Journey Of Revenge, Dig Two Graves”. what a stupid fucking quote. I’m killing way more than two people idiot
karvinacorp
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Enjoyed Bob’s Burgers’ intro store pun this week…
It’s not quite Khanukkah, but still great.